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"I'll have to get there as soon as I can to keep you from making more of your dreadful mistakes. In the meantime, I am ashamed of you. Don't you go near Rosanna with your cutting speeches until I see you. Oh, I can't talk to you! Good-night!" She rang off and Mrs. Horton slowly replaced the receiver. No, she did not intend to go near Rosanna.
And to make it worse he is often so angry that he does not give the other a chance to explain his side of it, at least not until he has said all that he has to say, and even then he not infrequently slams the receiver down on the hook as soon as he has finished! Listening on a wire passes over from the field of courtesy into that of ethics.
The penalty, he said, was outrageous, hitherto unheard of in law, putting a corporation in the hands of a receiver, at the mercy of those who coveted it, because one of its officers refused, or was unable, to testify. He might be in China, in Timbuctoo when the summons was delivered at his last or usual place of abode.
To the human soul as I have learned to know it, an empty universe would be as an exhausted receiver to the lungs that thirst for air; but Faber liked the idea: how he would have liked the reality remains another thing. I suspect that what we call damnation is something as near it as it can be made; itself it can not be, for even the damned must live by God's life.
"Don't be foolish," he said; "you have nothing to do with the hearing; it is my new receiver." "I daresay," she replied; "but, then, why couldn't you make it work with other people?" Morris answered nothing. He, too, wondered why. Next morning they made the experiment. It failed. Other experiments followed at intervals, most of which were fiascos, although some were partially successful.
It is hideous to contemplate!" he sighed. "As for city life, we shall be beset wherever we go. And if the fashion set by some of our city police of having wires tucked away in uniforms and a wireless receiver carried in the pocket prevails in due time even when we walk the streets we shall all be in constant touch with our particular headquarters."
Stephen, wallowing in red upon his belly in an exhausted receiver, and a crowd of Hebrews in blue, green, and yellow, pelting him apparently with buns; and while we gazed upon this contrivance, regaled us with a piece of his own recent biography, of which his mind was still very full, and which he seemed to fancy, represented him in a heroic posture.
Suddenly he started and stared. There had come a loud bump against the cabin; then another and another. "It's the boats!" he shouted. "They've torn loose. Should have known they would. Should have thought of that. Here!" He handed the receiver to Joe and once more dashed out into the storm. The Kittlewake carried two lifeboats.
He knew that she was capable of doing this very thing; so he made answer, "All right, my dear. I surrender." "You'll come home?" "Yes, indeed. Right away." "Oh, thank God! You do love me, then. How soon will you be here?" "Very shortly, unless the taxi breaks down." "Hurry!" "Surely. Good-by!" He hung up the reverberant receiver and said to the telephone-boy: "If anybody calls me, I've gone out.
Jack took up the receiver again, therefore, and called the News office. After some delay the girl at the central office said: "They don't answer. I guess they must have gone home." "Central cannot get the News," said Jack, hanging up. "She thinks everybody must have gone home. It is rather late for a fact," glancing at his watch. "I had not thought of that."
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